Urgent Care (+Pictures!)

Last night, as I made dinner, Cadence arranged our four folding chairs and two wooden high chairs into a jungle gym and attempted to climb all over it as I worked on cleaning the kitchen. Since she got down when I told her, I did not immediately swoop in and disassemble the makeshift playplace. Turn my back for a moment, then I hear a hard thumb sound followed by screaming. *sigh* She'd climbed right back onto the chairs and in the process of climbing over the back of one, lost her balance and fell into the TV table.

As I usually do over minor bumps and scrapes, I dutifully moved the hair away from the area she indicated was hurt so I could pretend to scrutinize the non-existent boo-boo and send her on her way so I could return to my original task. Unfortunately, instead of a goose-egg, I saw a fair amount of blood underneath her hair. Great... In the end, the resulting head wound was just big enough (mostly deep enough) I wasn't sure whether to take her in or not. So I called James home to get his opinion (he only had an hour left of his shift). He agreed it was big enough that getting it seen was reasonable, so on to urgent care we went. The doctor cleaned and treated the wound. Even she was on the fence about whether or not to do anything else for it, but in the end we decided on one staple "just in case". If you're curious, picture of the final product can be seen here.

And now, pictures from the past month now that I finally have them on my computer: